The Incident
NEW COMMONER AND CALL FOR CONTRIBUTIONS
Dear friends
This is to announce that a new issue of the commoner is out consisting essentially of a long essay by J. Martin Pedersen on Property, Commoning and the Politics of Free Software and a call for contributions on real-case commoning projects.
The Commoner: http://www.commoner.org.uk/
Happy New Year
Massimo De Angelis
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Capitalism IS Crisis
PROSPERITY FOR THEM AND AUSTERITY FOR US
The Crisis of Capitalism & Resistance from Below
A public forum with Joel Geier, Marxist economist and associate editor of International Socialist Review magazine
Thursday, Feb 3rd • 7-9pm
Grace Place • 637 S. Dearborn Street
Around the world, economies are being wrecked by crisis. In addition to the trillions of dollars handed over to Wall Street, the governments of Ireland, Greece, and Portugal required similar bailouts while Spain and Italy are also seeking a way out of the financial crisis.
Of course, working class people everywhere are being forced to pay for the crisis; through joblessness, wage-cuts, and the slashing of social services. Likewise, these austerity programs have provoked fightbacks from hundreds of thousands of workers and students across Europe. And in Tunisia and Egypt, people have overthrown the bloated, corrupt governments that oversaw skyrocketing food and housing prices.
But, how can we understand the roots of the crisis; beyond the soundbites, headlines, and lies? Hear Joel Geier, a long-time Marxist economist, discuss the evolving crisis and prospects for global capitalism.
See: http://ChicagoSocialists.org
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Judith Butler
FRAMES OF WAR – JUDITH BUTLER
NEW IN PAPERBACK
FRAMES OF WAR: WHEN IS LIFE GRIEVABLE?
By JUDITH BUTLER
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“Judith Butler is the most creative and courageous social theorist writing today. FRAMES OF WAR is an intellectual masterpiece.” – Cornel West
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Judith Butler will be giving a lecture entitled ‘The Right to Appear: Towards an Arendtian Politics of the Street’ at the University of Westminster on 4th February 2011.
For more information visit http://instituteformodern.co.uk/2011/4th-february-judith-butler-at-university-of-westminster-london
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The most celebrated feminist in the world and founder of the Queer Theory movement returns with this powerful analysis of the role of the media in the ‘War on Terror’.
In this urgent response to violence, racism and increasingly aggressive methods of coercion, Judith Butler explores the media’s portrayal of armed conflicts, a process integral to how the West wages war. In doing so, she calls for a reconceptualization of the Left, one united in opposition and resistance to the illegitimate and arbitrary effects of interventionist military action.
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Praise for JUDITH BUTLER:
“Judith Butler is quite simply one of the most probing, challenging, and influential thinkers of our time.” J.M. Bernstein
Praise for FRAMES OF WAR:
“To propose that Judith Butler is one of the world’s leading thinkers, a feminist philosopher whose writing has impacted on a wide domain of disciplinary fields inside the academy, as well as on political culture in the outside world, is hardly contentious. We are, many of us, deeply indebted to this body of work which has illuminated issues that are at the very core of life, death, sexuality and existence.” Angela McRobbie, Times Higher Education Book of the Week http://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/story.asp?storycode=407098
“An impressive and challenging book from one of the leading intellectuals of our time” – DIVA
“Frames of War [is] an important contribution to what will no doubt be an ongoing philosophical and political discussion about the rights and wrongs of war.” Nina Power, THE PHILOSOPHERS’ MAGAZINE
http://www.philosophypress.co.uk/?p=714
“Judith Butler’s focus in this collection of five essays written and revised between 2004 and 2008 is the USA under George W. Bush, with Abu Ghraib and Guantánamo Bay looming in the background. The questions she addresses… have a clear bearing on the cultural politics of grief beyond the USA.” Mark Fisher, FRIEZE
http://www.frieze.com/issue/article/frames_of_war_when_is_life_grievable
“A trenchant and brilliant book.” – UTNE READER
http://www.utne.com/Politics/Utne-Reader-Visionaries-Judith-Butler-Abu-Ghraib-Torture.aspx
Praise for PRECARIOUS LIFE:
“It’s clear that its author is still interested in stirring up trouble—academic, political and otherwise.” – BOOKFORUM
“Hers is a unique voice of courage and conceptual ambition that addresses public life from the perspective of psychic reality, encouraging us to acknowledge the solidarity and the suffering through which we emerge as subjects of freedom.” Homi K. Bhabha
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JUDITH BUTLER is Maxine Elliot Professor of Rhetoric and Comparative Literature at the University of California, Berkeley. She is the author of many highly influential books, including GIVING AN ACCOUNT OF ONESELF, PRECARIOUS LIFE and GENDER TROUBLE.
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ISBN 978-1-84467-626-2 / $16.95 / £9.99 / $21.00 / Paperback / 224 pages
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For more information or to buy the book visit: http://www.versobooks.com/books/460-460-frames-of-war
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Utopia
GEOGRAPHIES OF JUSTICE
Announcing:
Antipode’s 3rd Institute for the Geographies of Justice (IGJ)*
*(We have jettisoned “Summer” given the Northern hemispheric bias it presents)
Antipode’s 3rd Institute for the Geographies of Justice (IGJ) will take place in Athens, Georgia, USA, May 30th-June 3rd, 2011.
Antipode’s 3rd Institute for the Geographies of Justice (IGJ) will provide an exciting opportunity to engage leading edge theoretical, methodological, and research-practice issues in the field of radical geography and social justice (both broadly defined), along with a range of associated professional and career development matters. This international meeting will be specifically designed to meet the needs of new researchers, taking the form of an intensive, interactive workshop for 25 participants. It will include facilitated discussion groups, debates and panels, training and skills development modules, and plenary sessions. Topics for the meeting will include: defining radical/critical geographies, models of engagement broadly/models of activist-scholarship specifically, interdisciplinary radical work, producing public geographies, locating the boundaries of “the geographies of justice,” the institutional cultures of radical geography, interdisciplinary dialogue and radical geography, how to teach radical geographies, publishing radical geographies and mapping the future of radical/critical geographies.
Featured plenary contributors at the Athens (2011) meeting will be:
Patrick Bond, School of Development Studies and Centre for Civil Society, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban, South Africa. See: http://sds.ukzn.ac.za/default.php?2,4,35,4,0
Vinay Gidwani, Department of Geography and Institute for Global Studies, University of Minnesota. See: http://www.geog.umn.edu/people/profile.php?UID=gidwa002
Wendy Larner, School of Geographical Sciences, University of Bristol. See: http://www.bris.ac.uk/geography/staff/?PersonKey=zOFDxaAjuHkDytSFcaRhO0gQl3YyFx
Laura Pulido, Department of American Studies and Ethnicity, University of Southern California. See: http://college.usc.edu/ase/people/faculty_display.cfm?Person_ID=1003620
Nik Theodore, Center for Urban Economic Development and Department of Urban Planning and Policy,
University of Illinois at Chicago. See: http://www.urbaneconomy.org/niktheodore
Wendy Wolford, Department of Development Sociology, Cornell University. See: http://devsoc.cals.cornell.edu/cals/devsoc/people/faculty.cfm?netId=www43
The local organizer of the meeting is:
Nik Heynen, Department of Geography, University of Georgia. See: http://www.ggy.uga.edu/directory/details.php?i=220&group
Who is Eligible and How to Apply?
The Institute for the Geographies of Justice is open to doctoral students, postdoctoral researchers, and recently appointed junior faculty (normally within 3 years of appointment).
The Institute participation fee will be $200 for graduate students and $250 for faculty and postdoctoral researchers. This fee will include your lodging for the week, a couple meals here and there and fund a reception at the end of the week.
All those wishing to attend the IGJ must complete a pre-registration form by January 31st, 2011.
Pre-registration forms are available at the two following links: http://www.antipode-online.net/docs/IGJ_2011_pre-ap.doc and http://geog.ggy.uga.edu/faculty/index.php?n=Main.Nheynen
Please fill out the form and email it to Nik Heynen at antipode.igj@gmail.com
Support for the SIGJ is being provided by:
• Antipode: A Journal of Radical Geography: http://www.antipode-online.net/default.asp
• The Department of Geography at the University of Georgia: http://www.ggy.uga.edu/
Further information about the Institute for the Geographies of Justice can be obtained from Nik Heynen at antipode.igj@gmail.com or nheynen@uga.edu
Information on Athens can be found at http://www.visitathensga.com/
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Nik Heynen
Associate Professor of Geography,
Adjunct Associate Professor of Anthropology,
Associate Director of the Center for Integrative Conservation Research
(CICR)
University of Georgia,
GG Building, 210 Field St., Room 204,
Athens, GA 30602
Phone: (706) 542-1954 (direct)
(706) 542-2856 (office)
Fax: (706) 542-2388
E-mail: nheynen@uga.edu
www: http://www.ggy.uga.edu/directory/details.php?i=220&group
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Capitalist Crisis
CONFRONTING THE CRISIS
Over 400 economists from across Europe signed to express their support for the 2010-11 EuroMemorandum, ‘Confronting the Crisis: Austerity or Solidarity’.
The English text, together with the list of signatories, has now been posted on the EuroMemo Group’s new web site, www.euromemo.eu.
The long version of the EuroMemorandum is also available in Spanish, as well as translations of the shorter summary into German, Dutch and Danish.
Translations of the full text into German, French and Greek are in the process of being completed and will be posted as they become available.
Trevor Evans, John Grahl and Diana Wehlau for the Steering Committee of the EuroMemo Group
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Professor John Grahl
Middlesex University Business School
The Burroughs
Hendon
London NW4 4BT
J.Grahl@mdx.ac.uk
Tel: +44 (0) 20 8411 5905
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Sociology
ONLINE FIRST FOR CRITICAL SOCIOLOGY
Critical Sociology now publishes accepted articles on-line, in advance of their appearance in the pages of the print journal. Anyone at an institution getting the journal has access to the online version of Critical Sociology, which includes all back issues from Vol.1 Issue 1, as well as the online first articles (these are removed from the web site and appear online in the journal version).
You can sign up for table of content alerts and announcements of additions to the OnlineFirst page by going to the link below and registering.
See: http://crs.sagepub.com/cgi/alerts/etoc
(Potential authors–this counts as a publication date and the Document Object Identification [DOI] serves as a direct link to the article.)
The most recent additions to Critical Sociology OnlineFirst are:
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Neoliberal Globalization and Trade Unionism: Toward Radical Political Unionism?
Martin Upchurch and Andy Mathers
Crit Sociol published 11 January 2011, 10.1177/0896920510396384
http://crs.sagepub.com/cgi/content/abstract/0896920510396384v1?papetoc
The Four Horsemen of the Fair Housing Apocalypse: A Critique of Fair Housing Policy in the USA
Robert Silverman and Kelly L. Patterson
Crit Sociol published 11 January 2011, 10.1177/0896920510396385
http://crs.sagepub.com/cgi/content/abstract/0896920510396385v1?papetoc
Independent Travel: Colonialism, Liberalism, and the Self
Kristin Lozanski
Crit Socio l published 11 January 2011, 10.1177/0896920510379443
http://crs.sagepub.com/cgi/content/abstract/0896920510379443v1?papetoc
Urban Workers’ Leisure Culture and the ‘Public Sphere’: A Study of the Transformation of the Workers’ Cultural Palace in Reform-era China
Guoxin Xing
Crit Sociol published 11 January 2011, 10.1177/0896920510392078
http://crs.sagepub.com/cgi/content/abstract/0896920510392078v1?papetoc
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Professor David Fasenfest
Dept of Sociology
Wayne State University
Editor, Critical Sociology
crs.sagepub.com
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CENTRE FOR THE STUDY OF EDUCATION AND WORK: UPDATE 30th JANAURY 2011
EVENTS
FREE SCREENING OF ‘HOME SAFE TORONTO’ DOCUMENTARY
Friday, February 4
7:30pm – 10:30pm
The Centre of Gravity
1300 Gerrard St. East, Toronto
With Street Nurse and Executive Producer Cathy Crowe and Director Laura Sky
HOME SAFE TORONTO is the second in the Sky Works series of documentaries that deals with how Canadian families live with the threat and the experience of homelessness.
It shows how the housing crisis in Canada is an expression of the increasing economic and job insecurity that has devastated the manufacturing sector in the Greater Toronto Area and throughout southern Ontario.
The film reveals the consequences of this “new economy”, where families surviving on low wages with no benefits, or on dwindling social assistance, are faced with the terrible choice between keeping a roof over their heads or putting food on the table.
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GREATER TORONTO WORKERS’ ASSEMBLY
Saturday, February 19
9:30am – 6:00pm
Steelworkers’ Hall, 25 Cecil St, Toronto
How to join the GTWA: http://www.workersassembly.ca/join
Committees: http://www.workersassembly.ca/committees
Our vision statement: http://www.workersassembly.ca/vision
Contact us at: workingclassfightback@gmail.com
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BLACK HISTORY MONTH CELEBRATION
Thursday, February 24, 5:00pm – 8 pm and
Friday, February 25, 9:00am – 1:00pm
Ontario Federation of Labour (OFL) Building
15 Gervais Drive, Toronto
The OFL and CBTU (Coalition of Black Trade Unionists) present the acclaimed exhibition “And Still I Rise: A History of African Canadian Workers in Ontario.” This travelling exhibit originally developed by the Workers Arts and Heritage Centre explores the rich legacy of Ontario’s black Community.
Four exhibits designed to look like train coaches span the twentieth century with exhibition topics ranging from “Challenges to Freedom”: “1900 to World War II” to the reflective “Legacy of African Canadians”. Visitors are invited to learn more about the historic and present day lives and experiences of Black Canadians through the investigation of themes including immigration, work roles and the labour movement, the agitation of civil rights, the contributions of African Canadians to the arts and sports, the importance of church, schools and voluntary organizations to building strong communities.
For more information, contact Janice Gairey at jgairey@ofl.ca or 416.347.9732.
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“EL CONTRATO”: FILM PRESENTED BY PUEBLITO FOR INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT WEEK 2011
February 8, 2011
6:00pm-9:00pm
Beit Zatoun
612 Markham St., Toronto
“El Contrato” follows the path of migrant workers from Central Mexico to pick tomatos in Lemington, Ontario and the struggles and racism they face. Following the movie, prominent speaker Chris Ramsaroop will be addressing the issues about how immigrant workers in Canada still face injustices in today’s labour market and what should be the role of the Canadian labour movement.
To register for this event please email barrerasandy@hotmail.com with your name, email address and number of tickets you would like to reserve.
Suggested donation: $10.00
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CONFERENCE & CFP – TRANSNATIONAL MIGRATION AND ADULT EDUCATION: GLOBAL ISSUES AND DEBATES
June 9, 2011
9:30 am – 4 pm
Ontario Institute for Studies in Education
University of Toronto
A pre-conference held in conjunction with the 52nd Adult Education Research Conference (AERC) and the 30th Canadian Association for the Study of Adult Education (CASAE) Conference
Keynote speakers: Dr. Roxana Ng, OISE/University of Toronto and Dr. Mary V. Alfred, Texas A&M University
When migrants arrive in a new society, they bring with them their values, language and culture, contributing significantly to the diversity of their host countries. Without a doubt, the resulting demographic, social, and cultural changes create new opportunities for development as well as new challenges for adult education. However, we are left to grapple with many important questions, such as: What is the impact of transnational migration on adult education? What are the challenges and opportunities for adult education? How can adult education best facilitate migrants’ adaptation in a new society?
Call for Proposals: If you are conducting research or have completed studies in this area, we invite you to submit proposals to: Dr. Shibao Guo, University of Calgary, guos@ucalgary.ca. Deadline: February 15, 2011
For more information: http://silenceandvoice.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/AERC-CASAE-Call-2011.pdf
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NEWS AND VIEWS
RADICAL LABOR EDUCATION, PART I (FROM CHEAP MOTELS AND A HOT PLATE)
By Michael Yates
We are on our way to Amherst, Massachusetts, where I will be teaching a two-week course in labor economics to labor union brothers and sisters. I have been a labor educator for thirty years. I have taught working people, mostly union leaders and members, a wide variety of courses in all kinds of settings… While working people are often enough unhappy with their work, or lack of it, and alienated from the political system, they ordinarily do not have a very clear understanding of the nature of our political economy or a desire to radically transform it. Why is this?
Read more: http://blog.cheapmotelsandahotplate.org/2010/12/27/radical-labor-education-part-i/
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SHARING IN A COMMON STRUGGLE
By Anthony Arnove, Socialist Worker
Anthony Arnove, Howard Zinn’s collaborator on projects like the book Voices of a People’s History of the United States and the documentary The People Speak, pays tribute to a friend whose sense of solidarity and joy in life was infectious.
FILMING OUR documentary The People Speak in Boston one afternoon, Howard said that the camaraderie between our cast members, the sense of collective purpose and joy, was a feeling he hadn’t experienced with such intensity since his active participation in the civil rights movement.
Since Howard’s passing, I have thought often of that moment, which crystallizes for me what made him so compelling an example of someone committed to, and enjoying to its fullest, a life of struggle.
Read more: http://socialistworker.org/2010/02/12/sharing-in-the-struggle
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EGYPT (FROM WADE RATHKE: CHIEF ORGANIZER BLOG)
If there was ever a more dramatic case study of the political impact of protest on or off the grid of internet, telecommunications, and social networking, the world saw it on the streets of Egypt yesterday. It was as if there were a perfect laboratory experiment on what would happen if the only avenues for protest were “old school” removing the variable of communications.
Read more: http://chieforganizer.org/2011/01/29/egypt/
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BEARING THE BRUNT OF A NEW WITCH-HUNT
By Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor, Socialist Worker
The bipartisan campaign against “privileged” public-sector workers threatens to erode some of the gains of the civil rights and Black Power movements.
IN THE run-up to the midterm elections, overheated rhetoric from both Republicans and Democrats identified public-sector workers as a central factor in historically high budget state deficits and the collapse of local economies.
Public-sector workers have been described as the “haves”–as an “elite” group of workers who are living high on the fat of tax dollars, while the rest of the workforce wallows in job insecurity, lack of health care, foreclosure and falling wages.
Read more: http://socialistworker.org/2011/01/27/brunt-of-a-new-witch-hunt
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“ALONE TOGETHER”: AN MIT PROFESSOR’S NEW BOOK URGES US TO UNPLUG
By David Zax, Fast Company
In her new book, an MIT professor shares her ambivalence about the overuses of technology, which, she writes, “proposes itself as the architect of our intimacies.”
Sherry Turkle has been an ethnographer of our technological world for three decades, hosted all the while at one of its epicenters: MIT. A professor of the social studies of science and technology there, she also heads up its Initiative on Technology and Self. Her new book, Alone Together, completes a trilogy of investigations into the ways humans interact with technology. It can be, at times, a grim read. Fast Company spoke recently with Turkle about connecting, solitude, and how that compulsion to always have your BlackBerry on might actually be hurting your company’s bottom line.
Read more: http://www.fastcompany.com/1716844/alone-together-an-mit-professors-new-book-urges-us-to-unplug
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POVERTY BY POSTAL CODE 2: VERTICAL POVERTY
Poverty by Postal Code 2: Vertical Poverty presents new data on the growing concentration of poverty in the City of Toronto and the role that high-rise housing is playing in this trend. The report tracks the continued growth in the spatial concentration of poverty in Toronto neighbourhoods, and in high-rise buildings within neighbourhoods. It then examines the quality of life that high-rise buildings are providing to tenants today. Its primary focus is on privately owned building stock in Toronto’s inner suburbs. This research is part of United Way’s Building Strong Neighbourhoods Strategy.
Read more: http://unitedwaytoronto.com/verticalpoverty/report/introduction/
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ABOUT CSEW (CENTRE FOR THE STUDY OF EDUCATION & WORK, OISE/UT):
Head: Peter Sawchuk
Co-ordinator: D’Arcy Martin
The Centre for the Study of Education and Work (CSEW) brings together educators from university, union, and community settings to understand and enrich the often-undervalued informal and formal learning of working people. We develop research and teaching programs at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education (UofT) that strengthen feminist, anti-racist, labour movement, and working-class perspectives on learning and work.
Our major project is APCOL: Anti-Poverty Community Organizing and Learning. This five-year project (2009-2013), funded by SSHRC-CURA, brings academics and activists together in a collaborative effort to evaluate how organizations approach issues and campaigns and use popular education.
For more information about CSEW, visit: http://www.csew.ca
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Karl Marx
MARX AND PHILOSOPHY SOCIETY REVIEW OF BOOKS: UPDATE 12th JANUARY 2011
New reviews just published online in the Marx and Philosophy Review of Books:
· Tally on Jameson
· Blackledge on Marxism and World Politics
· Gray on Re-reading Marx
· Versieren on Everling
· Verikukis on Eagleton
New comments and discussion
And a new list of books for review, all at: http://www.marxandphilosophy.org.uk/reviewofbooks/
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Professor Sean Sayers,
Editor, Marx and Philosophy Review of Books
School of European Culture and Languages
University of Kent, Canterbury CT2 7NF, UK
Tel +44 1227-827513; Fax +44 1227-823641
http://www.marxandphilosophy.org.uk/reviewofbooks/
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F.W. Taylor
INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON ENGINEERING AND BUSINESS MANAGEMENT (CEBM) 2011
Call for Papers
October 28-30, 2011
Shanghai, China
Web site: http://www.engii.org/cet2011/cebm2011.aspx
The 2011 International Conference on Engineering and Business Management (CEBM2011) will be held in Shanghai/China, Oct. 28-30, 2011, CEBM is part of World Congress on Engineering and Technology (CET) which will take place in Shanghai China. The CET is composed of several conferences on the frontier topics in the engineering and technological subjects.
The CET conference proceedings will be published by IEEE, and the accepted papers will be indexed by Ei Compendex and ISTP.
IEEE (IEEE Conference Calendar): http://www.engii.org/cet2011/NewsContent.aspx?newsID=527
Paper Submission Deadline: April 30, 2011
Acceptance Notification: June 15, 2011
The conference is soliciting state-of-the-art research papers in the following areas of interest:
For more information, please contact:
Email: cebm@engii.org
QQ: 58329403
QQ group: 133861010 133861899
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Karl Marx
MARXIST THEORY COLLOQUIUM AT NYU
CORRECTION:
The Marxist Theory Colloquium at NYU is basically a monthly discussion group for Marxist faculty in the New York City area and a few invited guests that has been going on for about ten years. We generally attract 20 – 30 people to each session, which takes place in a room that holds 35.
Sebastien Budgen’s wonderful announcement service for radical books and meetings – which I use regularly – seems to have made a mistake this time, because our meetings are not open to the general public, and we fear that a lot of people who come because of the earlier announcement are not going to get into the room, including some of our regulars.
People with a special interest in this topic or speaker can email me – giving their background in Marxist theory – and I will invite some of them to the meeting.
We are delighted, of course, when anyone wants to know more about Marxism, but the purpose of our colloquiu m is to allow those who already know a good deal of Marxism to discuss Marx”s theories among themselves. Sorry.
In Sollidarity –
Bertell Ollman, Department of Politics, NYU
Convener of the Marxist Theory Colloquium at NYU
Email: obertell@netscape.net
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FROM POST-MARXISM TO MANY MARXISMS – PETER THOMAS
Dr. Peter Thomas (Brunel University – Historical Materialism) gives a lecture:
From Post-Marxism to Many Marxisms
In Helsinki, 31 January 2011 (at 14–16, House of Science and Letters, Kirkkokatu 6, Hall 505)
To celebrate the publication of a new book in Finnish
Juha Koivisto & Vesa Oittinen (eds.): MEGA-Marx. Johdatus uuteen Marxiin. Vastapaino: Tampere 2011.
All Welcome!
Info: Juha.Koivisto@uta.fi
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Peterloo
NEW APPROACHES TO THE HISTORY OF POPULAR PROTEST AND RESISTANCE IN BRITAIN AND IRELAND, 1500-1900
A workshop, 1 July 2011, School of Humanities, University of Hertfordshire, Hatfield, UK
Sponsored by the History Workshop Journal
For more information or to book a place, contact Dr Katrina Navickas, University of Hertfordshire. Email k.navickas@herts.ac.uk
Format:
11am-1pm – two roundtables of 5 minute mini-papers, and each followed by discussion.
1pm-2pm – lunch (provided)
2pm-4pm – open-floor session to discuss pre-circulated longer papers and discussion points.
4pm-4.30pm – plan for new agenda for the history of protest, and discussion of proposed published outputs of the workshop.
The proceedings will be live-blogged, and there may be web-conferencing for participants unable to travel.
Workshop website: http://protesthistory2011.org.uk/
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